Nice build! And the output looks great. Do you find that there is "ghosting" around the pointer?
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Nice build! And the output looks great. Do you find that there is "ghosting" around the pointer?
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Laptop shape famiclone. Chunked "screen" with built-in tetris, hinges were broken anyway. Case was pretty tidy, but still had to do some repairs on plastic(ho-ho-hot glue!).
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Originally Posted by 80sFREAK
Hey 80sFREAK good to see you moved safely, hope things are going well!
Thanks, all fine. Have some more stuff to expose sometimes :cool:
well, took another trip out to the thrift shops and to the local comic shop the other day, finding less and less it seems (starting to think I might be better off to wait until the middle of the month or closer to the end, but before most 'poor' people like myself (retired/disability/unemployed/etc) who use the thrift shops actually get paid)
did find a couple of things (including one of the AD&D manuals I saw last month, which had been re-priced (no doubt all/most of them had, and then actually sold) to about 1/3 the original asking price. (dear thrift stores...you get your stock for FREE, unlike regular second-hand shops...let's be reasonable please :p)
In the case of the comics, there were all pulled out of the comic shops '50 cent bins' and are of varying condition, but most are in very good shape, and didn't really expect to see many of them in a bargain bin. (though some I just remembered from when i was younger and was collecting more)
Books/Games
AD&D Monster Manual 1e (HC) (TSR, 1979, fourth printing)
Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set (WotC, 2014) (second copy I've found in a few months, this one has it's dice set, still sealed in thier plastic bag)
Creature of Havoc Special Limited Edition FF#4 (Wizard Books, 2002)
Freeway Fighter FF#13 (Puffin Books, 1987 printing)
Comic Books
The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 15, 29 (Marvel, 1983-85)
Battlestar Galactica #4 (Marvel, 1979)
Time Bandits #1 (Marvel, 1982)
The Dark Crystal #2 (Marvel, 1983)
Dragonslayer #1 (Marvel, 1981)
Krull #2 (Marvel, 1983)
Buckaroo Banzai #1 (Marvel 1984)
The Sensational She-Hulk #50 (Marvel, 1993)
X-Factor #7, 8, 68 (Marvel, 1986-91)
Avengers West coast #73, 77 (Marvel, 1991)
Wonder Man #1 (Marvel, 1986)
Team Nippon #6 (Aircel, 1989)
Elric #5 (Pacific, 1984)
Jonny Quest #1, 2 (Comico, 1986)
Star Wars - X-Wing: Rogue Squadron - The Rebel Opposition #4 (Dark Horse, 1995)
Logan's Run #1, 2, 6 (Adventure, 1990)
Battle of the Planets #3, 10 (Gold Key/Whitman, 1979-80)
Snoots, The Forgetful Elefink #22 (Gold Key, 1975)
Porky Pig #80 (Gold Key, 1978 )
Smurfs #2 (Marvel, 1982)
Masters of the Universe #4 (Star (Marvel), 1986)
Peter Porker - The Spectacular Spider-Ham #14 (Star (Marvel), 1987)
Wally the Wizard #3 (Star (Marvel), 1985)
The Marvel Saga #13, 14 (Marvel, 1986-87)
Spider-man #1 (Gold Cover) (Marvel, 1990) (second printing)
Spider-man #9 (Marvel, 1991)
The Deadly Foes of Spider-man #1 (Marvel, 1991)
Deathlok Special #1 (Marvel, 1991)
The Transformers #8 (Marvel, 1985)
The New Mutants #16 (Marvel, 1984)
Conan the Barbarian #252 (Marvel, 1992)
Elfquest - Kings of the Broken Wheel #7 (Warp Graphics, 1991)
DC Who's Who #3, 11, 12, 17 (DC Comics, 85-86)
Star Trek - New Frontiers #9 (DC Comics, 1984)
Forgotten Realms #23 (DC Comics, 1991)
Silverfawn #1 (Caliber, 1989)
Merlin #2 (Adventure, 1992)
(hmm..more than i thought :lol:)
I wont bother to post these, but I went back today and snagged about 126 more from the bargain boxes...mostly Archies, Harvey Comics and Gold Keys from the 70s and a few issues of comics from the later 60s (12c/15c covers)
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Picked this up for <snip> , sold as seen. Took a new 72pin connector, lots and cleaning and tinkering with screw tensions to get it working. But I got there in the end. Actually my first NES.
One thing I'm known for is computer systems of mammoth proportions... :blink:
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This arrived yesterday, an Intel SC450NX 4-way PII/PIII Xeon.
Wow. You obviously haven't tested it yet, otherwise we would have noticed the lights flickering across Europe and heard all those fans running up! :D
Bryce.
a TOP3000 USB programmer so i can finally dump my willem and old parallel laptop :lol:
Oooooh, let me know how good it is, Eprom programmers are minefield.
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Not yet! It came without CPUs so have had to source a set of four PIII Xeon 550s.Quote:
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It sits with the others until they arrive. :roll:
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Lol I had a 6ru HP 8x Xeon DL 7 series server, it got fired up once for 5 mins and was then promptly turned off after my unimpressed wife told me she could hear it outside the house in the back yard (i was up the front of the house in the garage 25 metres away).
It went straight onto eBay and sold for a very tidy profit. Some student bought for his cna as it also had 8 gigabit network ports.
Wow, glad I stuck with the Intel stuff now. All 3 of my quads are fairly quiet to have on in the house once they get through their POST.Quote:
Originally Posted by djos
Only time they start screaming is when they develop a fault!
4x Xeon's are relatively quiet but double it in the same physical space and the cooling retirements escalate dramatically!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.SpookzWow, glad I stuck with the Intel stuff now. All 3 of my quads are fairly quiet to have on in the house once they get through their POST.Quote:
Originally Posted by djos
Only time they start screaming is when they develop a fault!
Ps Xeon's are Intel CPU's.
Box is in great condition, all the inserts, paper work and bags.
All the games are complete and in excellent condition
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After much annoyance due to a few too many factors that I had to tackle one at a time and with the help of some of you I've managed to get my new SCSI2SD board up and running in my A3000.
Now I just need to find out what's causing the issue with the video output.
I used brass and plastic stand-offs together to mount the SCSI2SD board to the HDD bracket. It looks clean and works great.
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Freedom Fighters is a complete sleeper. Once you get into it, it's very good. Nice lot you picked up. I love the gamecube.
I'm going to Microsoft's Ignite Australia conference this week so I thought I'd show my true colours...
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The shirts are new and the prints DIY.
Nice!
Very nice! :)
Not retro
I got this 40in 4k monitor today
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Some specs
The machine in between the two monitors my main general machine.
NZXT 530 source case, I7 4770K, 32Gb HyperX Savage ram, Corsair H100i, Zotac 780 Gtx, 2x 500Gb, 1x Tb,Win 7 Ultimate on 1x 240Gb Sandisk ssd, LG blu-ray reader, Corsair 750TX v2 psu.
The second black case on the desk my server.
Corsair 750D case, Xeon 5650, 24Gb Corsair ram, Corsair H100, Msi Gaming 970 Gtx, 2x WD red 2Tb, 2x WD red 1Tb, 1x 600Gb,Win 7 Ultimate on 1x 120Gb ssd, Pioneer blu-ray writer, Corsair CX750 psu.
The small black machine under the desk my main gaming machine.
Corsair 350D case, I7 3770, 16Gb Corsair ram, Corsair H100i, Evga 970 ssc Gtx,Win 10 PRO on 1x 120Gb ssd, 1x 1Tb, Pioneer dvd writer, Corsair CX750 psu.
The white case under the desk my second gaming machine.
Corsair 600T case, I7 2600K @4ghz, 16Gb Corsair ram, Corsair H100, Msi Gaming 970 Gtx, 2x WD black 640Gb, Corsair CX750 psu.
Amazing monitor. But do your eyes get tired with such a big monitor? 4k makes a big difference?
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:drool: Dribble, drole....
You really do take your gaming seriously!
Bryce.
But do your eyes get tired with such a big monitor? They were playing up at first but ok now.
4k makes a big difference? I had 2 24in 1200p and 1 1080p before and they took up too much room i can get it all on this 1 monitor now. the 28in 4k is too small to read the txt unless your really close up, but this is great for that now.
I've been looking at getting a 28in 4k (Acer). You can always make the text bigger in the OS. Above 28in the prices seem to rise almost expotentially and I don't have room for anything bigger anyway.
Bryce.
Scaling still sucks in Windows. I would buy a 28" 2560x1440 or a curved 29-34" 3440x1440 monitor instead.Quote:
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I'd only change the text size, not scale the entire display (The PC runs on Linux anyway). Unfortunately 28in really is the limit on my desk, 30in doesn't fit. I'm also not a big fan of those curved screens and as stated, the prices start getting silly above 28in.
Bryce.
:thumbsup: Nice setup John....awesome backdrop :DQuote:
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Cheers Taj
My 28in is a iiyama-prolite-b2888uhsu-b1-28
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It has 2x display 1.2 ports, 2x hdmi, 1 dvi, 1 vga
The main gaming machine runs windows 10
The 40in is a PHILIPS Brilliance BDM4065UC
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Hello, an external floppy drive reached my hands today but I can't find what kind of port is it that it uses. It also has an adapter with SCSI.
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It appears to be an older Laptop External FDD connector
NEC Versa and IBM Thinkpads seem to have used it (and probably a few others)
I gather some (older) Laptop docking stations may support it...
(eg: the Versa MiniDock 6000 appears to have this port)
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I presume it is the same... (might be reversed, perhaps this is specifically for NEC Versa...)
Thanks mate! It'd be a challenge to find somewhere to test it out :P
I got two 27" 1440p ips monitors. works very well. I use a mac though. I considered 4k, but the price was too much and i like a wide workspace. I game on one of them (ps4).Quote:
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I just received an NOS front cover for my A4000d. It's perfect in every way but that has caused an issue. The drive bay covers on my old cover have never been removed since new and when I unscrewed them the plastic threads came out as well.
I don't want to damage the new cover and am wondering if any of you have seen this and it's normal. If you know what type of screw the bay covers can use that don't damage the plastic I'd like to know.
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Got a Commodore SR4190R calculator. The NiCd cells were corroded. One segment line is faulty. I hope it is fixable. Does anyone have experience fixing these? Any schematic available?
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If you're lucky it's just a bad contact to the display. If you're unlucky the driver chip is damaged and replacing it is more or less impossibly.
Bryce.
Thrift Shop day...
Books
The Hobbit Companion (HC)(Pavilion, 1997)
Walt Disney CYOA: Winnie-the-Pooh and his Friends (HC)(Bantam, 1987) (this is a CYOA that I'd never come across before...)
Stories from Rudyard Kipling (HC)(Franklin Mint, 1980)
Tales of Edgar Allen Poe (HC)(Franklin Mint, 1979)
Don Quixote de la Mancha (HC)(Franklin Mint, 1979)
Games/Toys
Monopoly City (Hasbro, 2009)
The Settlers of Canaan (Cactus, 2002) (sort of a religious themed knock-off of Settlers of Catan, it looks like... "unused")
Warriors of the Promised Land Card Game (Covenant, 2007) (another religious themed game)
MegaBloks Call of Duty - Odin Space Station Strike set (695pc)(new - unopened)
Records / "LPs"
Air Supply - Lost in Love (1980)
Air Supply - The One That You Love (1981)
Men at Work - Business As Usual (1982)
REO Speedwagon - Good Trouble (1982)
Olivia Newton John - Physical (1981)
Sheena Easton - You Could Have Been With Me (1981)
Juice Newton - Juice (1981)
Juice Newton - Quiet Lies (1982)
Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down (1983)
Various - High Energy (K-Tel, 1979) (I used to love these as a kid, we didn't have a lot of money to buy albums, and we'd get these when they came out...usually had most of the songs we liked)
all in all, not too bad, just not finding much in the way of vintage/retro stuff (although the LPs come close i guess)...there was a Dreamcast as well as a boxed Intellivoice module at one place, but they wanted a bit too much for them, also a Coleco Flashback for an 'ok' price, but I didn't bother (as I have a ColecoVision and an ADAM, and many carts...)
A couple of brand new design dual Sid/ pseudo stereo Sid boards from Dave @ Tynemouth software- as ever, really nicely designed and made
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And, Dave also made me a buzzer speaker for my CBM PET! :) :)
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These came from Japan today. Just about to have a play. The boxes are tiny, I'm actually thinking of collecting more boxed jap games they're so cute :)
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Also I bought these at Retro Revival.
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No VGA graphics card? No CGA Monitor? No way to connect a CGA GPU to a VGA modern monitor? No problem. This awesome adapter was made after 3 hours of soldering with a friend. Always nice to make solution with your hands :D I made this to test what I thought was a Graphics Card but ended up probably not being one my friend thinks. I think it looks way too similar to one to not be :/ Here is the adapter and the card!
Thing is I found an 1989-1992 Wyse modular PC at the junkyard but the ones that threw it out removed the PSU and the hard drives first. It uses PSU connectors I have never seen before. So I can't test it as a whole right now. I need to find atleast the volts it uses to handwire something like I did with the CGA adapter with other power supplies. I will include a picture if any of you know something about these power supplies.
As some other people are telling me maybe I got lucky and the adapter worked because the card I tested it on was a CGA and VGA card and it supported multisync. I have been told that on a CGA only Card it wouldn't work.
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Ah, Colecovision! :) This was the first real console I ever tried. A friend of mine rented one a couple of times before we both got C64s.Quote:
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I got a custom made joystick tester. :)
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I've been looking out for one of these for a very long time. Missed out on one on ebay becausemy phone never alerted me :( but arrived today! I had one as a child and its just something that meant everything to me. The shape and wheels just do it for me. Front wheel bearings are worn but randomly there's a brand new pair on ebay in France, who didnt know what they were from, till i told him heh. Needs new springs as a little brown looking. Otherwise all the other metal parts are good. Needs stripping n cleaning. Need 2 more tyres aswell. V happy chappy.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...4339b182e5.jpg
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I got one as a kid also,, mine is boxed in the loft :)
reason I love it.
suspension, true 4 wheel drive with front end differential. it was amazing for its day.
I completely agree mate, such a fantastic machine. The 4wd makes a huge difference. I just need a good heavy duty set of rechargable AAs and charger. Glad to see someone else had one.
I'll dig it out but mine was WELL USED and looks like it would feel more at home in Fallout 4 :DQuote:
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I picked up an Amiga 1000 on Sunday. I'm pretty sure it's the first time I've ever seen one in person. Unfortunately there was no keyboard, mouse or disks with it:
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After a few tries I managed to get it to accept a kickstart disk and it boots quite happily.
It was pretty grubby and there's some yellowing, especially the back plate of the case. I've given it a good clean.
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This one has the daughterboard which, as far as I understand, was only present on early PAL versions. It also has the piggybacking ram chip mod:
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The chips are stacked three high! Am I right in thinking that plus the front expansion cartridge gives it a total of 1MB?
Next step is to make a keyboard adaptor so I can use an A2000 or A4000 keyboard with it.
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Nice Amiga 1000. Too bad it came without a keyboard, as the original A1000 keyboards can be rare and expensive. I should know since I just got one off the other bay :) I think that is 1 meg chip yes, was looking into doing it to mine, but figured I will leave it as is, hopefully the ACA1000 will have some chip ram(?)
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